Sentences with phrase «climate warming conditions»

The team used the new scheme in five ice sheet models and forced them with climate warming conditions taken from two different climate models.

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Given the warm climate and primitive sanitary conditions he probably had worse digestive problems than most of us have today.
Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?
On another note, for summer wearing in warm climates, Baby K'Tan also offers an even more flexible model called the «Breeze», where half of the loop is made of a cool easy - breathing mesh fabric, and the other half is made of cotton, allowing you to turn the loops depending on the weather conditions!
Most pregnant women are advised by their doctors to pre register themselves at their nearest hospital when they enter pregnancy week 333Some common week 33 pregnancy symptoms experienced by women are edema or a mild swelling which will continue till the latter part of the pregnancyc Some women have notices that hot climates or warm weather conditions tend to aggravate the swellingn Additionally in pregnancy week 33 women tend to experience a rise in body temperature and feel warmer and bloatede This can be taken care of by ensuring that the pregnant woman keeps herself hydrated by drinking plenty of water throughout the daya
I do recommend getting the cotton one if you are in a warmer climate or don't have air conditioning.
Jonathan Nichols, a Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory Research Professor at Columbia University who specializes in climate science, focuses his research on whether warming temperatures will cause Arctic peat bogs to decay or expand due to improved growing conditions, a question that could alter the levels of carbon the bogs have long absorbed.
«Climate warming causes local extinction of Rocky Mountain wildflower species: warmer, drier conditions decimated experimental populations of Northern rock jasmine, a mountain wildflower..»
It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.
Warm - blooded animals are also able to use their own bodies to keep their developing babies warm, while cold - blooded animals must stay within suitable climate conditions for their eggs to develop and haWarm - blooded animals are also able to use their own bodies to keep their developing babies warm, while cold - blooded animals must stay within suitable climate conditions for their eggs to develop and hawarm, while cold - blooded animals must stay within suitable climate conditions for their eggs to develop and hatch.
Whereas it would take about 20 years for the warm permafrost regions to thaw under present climate change conditions, the paper says it could take just five years for that permafrost underneath the disturbed land to reach the melting point.
In a recent study, Walter and her team predict that if these methane reservoirs melt over the next 100 years, the gas released could re-create climate conditions that prevailed during a 2,500 - year warming spell that began 14,000 years ago.
The hourlong documentary examines how Arctic warming may be increasing storms» intensity and altering their paths, and how countries such as the Netherlands are creating climate - adaptive cities to respond to changing conditions
In particular, the influence of warmer temperatures on moose nutritional condition and moose parasites, including a fatal brain worm parasite that is spread by white - tail deer, which have moved farther north into moose territory as the climate has gotten milder.
Models used to project conditions on an Earth warmed by climate change especially need to consider how the ocean will move excess heat around, Legg said.
These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.
The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.
Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a...
Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.
A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.
«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.
In reconstructions past climates, the presence of palms is usually considered indicative of warm, equable climate conditions.
In some instances, the tiny fungi and bacteria constrain where offspring can grow, but in higher elevations — where the species is headed as the climate warms — a less robust soil microbiome seems to create conditions where baby trees can thrive upslope.
A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.
«Climate change researchers know that when we look out over the next 100 years, things will get warmer and, on a per - person basis, use of air conditioning will rise.
Crocodiles occur in tropical climates, and they are frequently used as markers of warm conditions when they are found as fossils.
In Bordeaux, he said, a warming climate is making conditions better.
Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.
Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a buffer for fossil fuel emissions (SN Online: 9/28/17).
«We've thought of climate change as «global warming»; among what matters is how this overall warming affects conditions that hit people where they live,» said Eric DeWeaver, program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funds NCAR.
«As Earth continues to warm, it may be approaching a critical climate threshold beyond which rapid and potentially permanent — at least on a human time - scale — changes not anticipated by climate models tuned to modern conditions may occur,» the report says.
For climate scientists, a major question is whether the coming event will be big enough to flip the world into the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a 20 - to 30 - year climate cycle that is related to El Niño or La Niña conditions.
He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.
While several studies have been conducted in the central and southern United States to compare and evaluate the durability of pavement markings, Zayed points out that the findings don't translate very well given the strikingly different weather conditions between warm versus seasonal climates.
Mad dogs, Englishmen and El Niño And, according to climate experts at the University of Reading, forecasts suggest that conditions in Brazil may get a lot warmer in the coming months due to the possible development of an El Niño weather system.
«Oregon's Coos Bay historically has avoided serious hypoxic conditions: Narrow offshore shelf, a dredged ship channel and fresh river water combine to keep the bay flushed, but that could change as the climate warms
Even so, we maintain that the early Mars climate cycle hypothesis remains consistent with observable geologic evidence and could have played at least a partial role in providing warm conditions on early Mars.
To investigate cloud — climate feedbacks in iRAM, the authors ran several global warming scenarios with boundary conditions appropriate for late twenty - first - century conditions (specifically, warming signals based on IPCC AR4 SRES A1B simulations).
The warmth across the country wasn't unexpected given the strong El Niño, which tends to lead to warmer conditions across the northern tier of the country as well as other climate patterns that tend to favor warmth in the U.S., NOAA climatologist Jake Crouch said.
In other words, there is a large role that wildland management can play in limiting the severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests even as the climate warms and conditions become right for larger and potentially more severe fires.
Short Summary: A warmer climate with more atmospheric carbon dioxide is creating ideal growing conditions.
Long - term (decadal and multi-decadal) variation in total annual streamflow is largely influenced by quasi-cyclic changes in sea - surface temperatures and resulting climate conditions; the influence of climate warming on these patterns is uncertain.
«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.
The South is seen as especially vulnerable because of its warm, humid climate and pockets of poverty where more people live without air conditioning or proper window screens.
«The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Niña conditions less likely» says corresponding author de Freitas.
Climate conditions favor warm water growth — as measured by sea surface temperature (SST)-- later in the year, suggesting that normal climate conditions effectively nipped the nascent El Niño in tClimate conditions favor warm water growth — as measured by sea surface temperature (SST)-- later in the year, suggesting that normal climate conditions effectively nipped the nascent El Niño in tclimate conditions effectively nipped the nascent El Niño in the bud.
Other scientists have interpreted this as bird and butterfly populations keeping pace with climate change by favouring species that can best tolerate warmer conditions.
Warmer, drier climate phases can particularly increase fire risk when they follow cooler, wetter conditions that increase fire fuel availability via increased vegetation growth and reduced fire activity (Heyerdahl et al. 2008).
We can say it's colder and warmer, but exactly what the climate condition was is a little more difficult,» Hurowitz explained.
Sturrock et al. (2011) also state that the implications of climate change for white pine blister rust are uncertain, but suggest decreased impacts under a warmer, drier climate, and no change under warmer, wetter conditions because infections require both moist and cool environments.
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